To what extent men can stoop down was evident from the exposing of a prominent media daily, published in today’s issue. The powerful had a free hand in ultimately everything in the Vijayanagaram District under the Liquor mafia and the king pin has to be yet identified by the Central bureau of Investigations. The report, courtesy to Eenadu was published about the various discrepancies that had taken place in the district, are presented here, for reader enrichment.

There were wide discrepancies reported from rating of auction to shops handling. The state was gripped with serious Anti Corruption Bureau raids, on Liquor shop owners and Excise officials. This was only the safe haven in the state where not one such was ever heard of. Most of the shop owners in Vijayanagaram town were working in the same organization, quite interesting. Of the 12 shops in the town 11 belonged to persons who were employed by the PCC Chief Botsa Satyanarayana.

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Now lets us look at the discrepancies in the liquor syndicate in the district:

1.    There are 202 liquor shops in the district. Most of them owned by individuals who were living below poverty line as per their PDS status. If so how did they manage such huge amounts to obtain the shops and where is the income going?
2.    The auction in 2010 was a part of bigger gamble. Shops elsewhere in the state that fetched Rs.1.58 Cr for a sale of Rs.50, 000 per day and Rs.2.26 Cr for daily sales of Rs.75, 000.  Fetched barely Rs. 60 Lakhs to 1Cr only, in the district, in spite of having a sale of Rs. 2-2.5 lakhs per day.  Quite astonishing!! Who manipulated the whole show?
3.    The entire districts is run by 13 syndicates all manned by one kingpin. Most of the syndicate members are living in dilapidated conditions and poses white cards. In some cases had even applied for Indiramma houses for the poor. 
4.    As per the sources each shop had to shell out 10 per cent of its profit to the kingpin, who shall invest nothing. And the 202 shops pay up to nearly Rs.2Cr per month for successfully running the show.

As day passes liquor mafia details are being exposed by the ACB from many parts of the state. But Vijayanagaram district is an exception, many Ministers, Politicians and excise officials have been proven tainted in the deal.   At this moment the common man will only be pondering over `who the Kingpin is? And why is the government liberal in the district?   (With inputs from internet: AarKay)